I’ve always just used konsole or gnome terminal. Never really looked into what else is available. Tried cool-retro-term the other day, but the novelty wore off pretty fast for me.

Curious to see if there’s a terminal someone swears by and refuses to use anything else.

  • rufus@lemmy.sdf.org
    15·
    6 months ago

    So the “terminal” is the basic CLI that you use in the single-user, text-based mode. Terminal emulators are graphical programs that run in multi-user, graphics-based mode, and they hook into the terminal and allow you to access it inside graphical sessions. Some examples would be alacritty, kitty, urxvt, konsole, or terminator

    • deezbutts@lemm.ee
      7·
      6 months ago

      Thanks for taking the time.

      I’ve been using the literal terminal app like a caveman I guess… What do these weird apps give me over my regular terminal?

      People mentioned tabs and stuff but like… I have tabs?

      • Jordan_U@lemmy.ml
        10·
        6 months ago

        Every “terminal app” is a terminal emulator, because non-emulated terminals are physical pieces of hardware.

        So you are already using a terminal emulator, I’d guess Gnome Terminal, and it’s a fairly full featured modern terminal emulator (in my opinion at least).

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
      5·
      6 months ago

      Thanks I actually thought this was about emulators like the Tektronics Vt 4052 terminal emulator I used to use.

      • al177@lemmy.sdf.org
        9·
        6 months ago

        That’s exactly what they are, but instead of connecting to a VAX at the other end of a modem they talk to a shell attached to a pseudo terminal device on the same machine.